Experimental folk trio to represent NI at global music industry festival

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'Who knows who is going to be standing there listening to what we are doing'

An experimental folk band which blends traditional Irish music with electronic sounds will represent Northern Ireland at a global music industry event in Manchester. The Coras Trio will play the Horizons Stage at WOMEX 24.

He said: “Myself, Kevin and Paddy , through the process of playing together and investigating tunes, have developed these ways of approaching the tradition from an improvisational perspective.“It can be exhausting because every single gig that you do is completely different. You are not tied to anything. It forces us to find new ways to listen and new ways to play together.

“We can send certain feeds into that patch. He can take the signal from the guitar player, he can go off his own fiddle, we have experimented with feeding the drums through it.

 

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